whataboutbobbed
top – Renee Torres wrote some questions and sealed them in an envelope, which she apparently saw burned. So she’s surprised when Satani quotes and answers them as he looks into his crystal. She doesn’t know that the burned envelope was a substitute, and that his aide copied her questions and placed them so he can ‘see them in the crystal’. The medium’s confederate writes ‘customers’ questions on a small slip of paper hidden in back of hollow ‘crystal’ ball. Medium then reads questions from slip of paper that emerges from slit in back of ball and slides back into ball through another slit.
bottom – this photo shows a simple method of ‘table lifting’ which has deceived hundreds of persons at false seances, according to Satani. Frances Lee thinks her ‘psychic current’ is helping make the table ‘float’, but Satani is lifting it by means of a ring. The medium presses a secret button which raises a nail-like catch in the center of the table. The medium then lifts the table by hooking a groove in a flesh-colored finger ring-under the head of the nail
both photos dated – April 30, 1930